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Posted on November 11, 2008 in RoutersNo Comments »

This post was written by Katie Bumper

Cisco Systems Inc has launched a new edge router designed to improve Web speeds as more and more users have started downloading movies online with increasing access to the Internet with the use of mobile phones.The ASR 9000 edge router aims at providing six times the capacity of corresponding products from competitors like Juniper Networks Inc. Edge routers are placed at the periphery of a service provider’s network and closer to the actual user. The ASR 9000 will be available in six- and 10-slot versions. The starting price of the product is $80,000.

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Posted on October 29, 2008 in Routers, wirelessNo Comments »

This post was written by Katie Bumper

WRT610NCisco subsidiary Linksys has introduced a new wireless router, tailored to the needs of home digital media content especially high-def video. WRT610N is a simultaneous dual-N band wireless router that operates in both the 5GHz and 2.4GHz spectrums. Users can connect entertainment-oriented devices, such as media center extenders, audio players or personal video recorders via the wider 5GHz band. The 5GHz spectrum is recommended for such high-def content because it provides more than seven times the number of non-overlapping wireless channels, which means clearer transmissions for big media files piped across the wireless network.
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Posted on October 14, 2008 in News, Routers1 Comment »

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ASR1000BT Global Services has chosen to deploy equipment produced by network equipment titan Cisco Systems Inc. BT is to deploy the new Cisco ASR 100 series aggregation services routers after being involved in the testing of the product prior to its launch in March of this year. The routers will be deployed in BT Global Services’ major finance and enterprise markets for critical managed service applications, such as highly secure encryption and virtual private networks (VPN).
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Posted on May 27, 2008 in Routers, patchesNo Comments »

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Cisco Systems Inc. has made available three patches for their router products. According to the press release:

These patches are to fix bugs which are serious enough to crash Cisco products. One of the patches fixes denial of service bugs in the SSH software in the company’s Internetwork Operating System, apart from fixing a similar bug in their Cisco Service Control Engine. Another patch is for privilege escalation vulnerability in the company’s Voice Portal automated telephone customer service software.”

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